The biggest pressure cooker in the dmv?

[Anonymous]

I keep hearing about schools being pressure cookers. Just wondering what schools the the people in the DCUM community feel are the biggest pressure cookers? and why?

[Anonymous]

Field. HOS in constant hot water.

[Anonymous]

For students or the adults who work there?

[Anonymous]

8qt Instant Pot.

[Anonymous]

Hah!

[Anonymous]

BASIS

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:BASIS

+1

[Anonymous]

TJ
Sidwell

[Anonymous]

I've heard NCS

[Anonymous]

Easily the public STEM magnets -- TJHSST and MB. It's just not comparable at the independent schools.

[Anonymous]

Are you limiting your question to private schools?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Easily the public STEM magnets -- TJHSST and MB. It's just not comparable at the independent schools.

It sounds like you're suggesting that either (1) the independent schools in this area aren't as academically rigorous as TJ or Blair, or (2) there isn't a strong positive correlation between academic rigor and pressure cooker atmospheres. Which one is it?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Are you limiting your question to private schools?

no

[Anonymous]

TJ by a mile

[Anonymous]

I wouldn't want to send my kid to a school that is a pressure cooker. I would much prefer to send my kid to an academically rigorous high school. There is a difference between the two.